Word: compassionately
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Was Life So Nice? Roger Buliard found no "noble savages." The Eskimos revealed most of the standard human faults, plus a few special ones of their own, e.g., though Eskimos spoil their children, they sometimes commit infanticide. Buliard found them brave in the face of danger and stoic in the...
What worries Author Blanshard is "the Roman Catholic church-state, a unique blend of personal faith, human compassion, clerical exploitation, and submissive ignorance." He is not likely to convince anybody not already convinced. His claim that the church, in its long history, has often stood with undemocratic factions throughout the...
Christopher Fry has conceived an ageless moral problem in soft verse and poetic action. "Thor, With Angles" sets this problem in 6th century England where a Jute warrior repents his war spirit and, with fear and no dogmatism, becomes a Christian. "We are afraid," he says, in peroration, "To live...
The dangers of inflicting this choice on us are obvious. As Hoffer says, "When we see the bloodshed, terror and destruction born of such generous enthusiasms as the love of God, love of Christ, love of nation, compassion for the oppressed, and so on, we usually blame this shameful perversion...
Bill Sikes is more an outright blackguard than Fagin, and this exactly how Robert Newton portrays him. The top-hatted, unshaven bully terrifies Fagin's crew of pickpurses; he terrifies his lover, Nancy; and the chances are that he will terrify you in the climatic scene. Kay Walsh, an extremely...